Mateo Askaripour is the New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck, a satire of race and corporate sales that was chosen for Jenna Bush Hager's Read with Jenna book club and named a best book of the year by numerous publications. His second novel, This Great Hemisphere, was published in 2024. A National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree, he was also selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of its rising stars to watch. Before writing full time he spent several years in the New York start-up world, including a period in sales that informs the sharp workplace comedy of his fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Pure Ox is his third novel.